Originally Posted By: jchuzi
We need to take a break from the angst produced by politics.

Mayhap, but be that as it may, today's (and past days') headlines indicate that Trump's latterday pogroms are just beginning. If he were literate, he might well have taken his game plan from Mein Kampf.

The equivalent of the Night of the Long Knives (cf 1934) is underway; can his version of Kristallnacht (cf 1938) be far behind?

The news media, (im)migrants and the LGBT community are already on the chopping block. Who and what is next? Purging of academics at all levels seems likely (especially given the new Secretary of Education).

And the "killing fields" may take on new meaning as asylum seekers flee north across the Canadian border.

Those who ignore history are doomed to relive it.